| LADYBRACKNELL | Character in The Importance of Being Earnest (4,9) |
| ALGERNON | First name of Mr Moncrieff, a character in The Importance of Being Earnest (8) |
| PRISM | Female character in The Importance of Being Earnest - optical device (5) |
| BRACKNELL | Lady ---, character in The Importance of Being Earnest (9) |
| LAETITIA | First name of Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest (8) |
| JUDI | ___ Dench, 14A's co-star in The Importance Of Being Earnest (4) |
| ERNEST | Worthing in "The Importance of Being Earnest" |
| FAIRFAX | Gwendolen's surname in The Importance of Being Earnest (7) |
| HANDBAG | "A ___?!" - line spoken by Lady Bracknell in The Importance Of Being Earnest (1895) |
| EVANS | Actress Dame Edith ... took the role of Lady Bracknell in The Importance Of Being Earnest |
| SETGREATSTOREBY | Expression meaning 'to believe in the importance of' (3,5,5,2) |
| MISSPRISM | Governess in the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest (4,5) |
| AUGUSTA | Lady -- Bracknell, character in Oscar Wilde's play 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (7) |
| EDITHEVANS | Actress who played Lady Bracknell in the 1952 film The Importance of Being Earnest (5,5) |
| OSCARWILDE | The Importance Of Being Earnest author who said 'Experience is the name everyone gives to their mist |
| COLIN | ___ Firth, 14A's co-star in Devil's Knot and The Importance Of Being Earnest (5) |
| TRIFLER | Pudding that's right for one unaware of "The Importance of Being Earnest"? |
| DENISON | Michael ?, actor who played Algernon Moncrieff in 1952 film comedy The Importance of Being Earnest |
| AMUSEMENT | "One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any ___ in life": "The Importance of Being Earnest" |
| TRUTH | 'The ___ is rarely pure and never simple' (Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)act 1) (5) |
